There is a new Beta version of the OpenSource, Linux based firewall available now from http://smoothwall.org/.

I’ve been a user of SmoothWall for quite a few years, and this new update looks promising, as its still in beta i’m not really willing to blow my existing firewall away just yet, but ill definitely be upgrading when the production version is released.

A couple of days ago I wrote about Windows Live! writer, I decided to download it today and this post is being written from within it. It does look nicer than the last version, and its support for tags and images is a great improvement. Ill find out in a minute if the formatting stuffs up when I upload it to blogger, that was why I stopped using the last one.

I have come across a very useful site that contains an iso to create a boot disk that will allow you to reset a local administrator password.
Check out http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
It uses a version of Linux to boot the pc, mount the NTFS disk and edit the section of the machines registry to reset the password to whatever you need

This is very useful in cases where the machine has fallen out of your active directory or the domain admin accounts password is not cached so you can log it on.